Silence Quotes

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

Silence always gives consent.

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.